Creator | Eric Hermès |
Printing year | 1936 |
Sheet size (cm) | 99.5×62 |
Printing technique | Lithograph |
Printer | Säuberlin & Pfeiffer |
Condition | B+ |
Asking price | 9'300 CHF |
Categories | Switzerland, Winter Posters |
A wonderful original poster by Eric Hermès (1881 – 1971), who was born in Germany and whose parents emigrated to French-speaking Switzerland at the end of the 19th century. First in Lausanne, then in Geneva at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Hermès studied sculpture and painting before becoming a naturalized citizen in 1902 and continuing his education in Paris and Munich thanks to a scholarship from the Swiss Confederation. In the first half of the 20th century, he was one of Geneva’s most prominent painters and was – of course and especially at the beginning of his career – strongly influenced by Ferdinand Hodler.
Meanwhile, Eric Hermès is best known as the creator of iconic tourism posters, having also worked as a commercial artist from the end of the 1920s, in particular for the Union valaisanne du tourisme, the Swiss Tourist Office or, as here, for the Swiss Federal Railways, which commissioned this poster to attract foreign guests – it was also printed in Italian and English, among other languages – to Switzerland; rare.
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